Notes / Commercial Description:
An IRA bursting with tropical notes, this beer finishes juicy with a subtle malty backbone. After one taste, it’ll leave you wanting more. It doesn’t take brains to know this IRA is a delicious choice any time of year!

Not particularly looking forward to this one for some reason. I mean Ninkasi is perfectly fine, but just bought this because I hadn’t reviewed it yet. Here’s to meh…

Poured a honey, orange, semi-clear color with three fingers of frothy, white head. Pretty funky underneath the head, mostly looking like standing pulp and a few bubble streams. Very good spideweb foamy lacing on the sides of the glass. Good retention on the top all the way down. (Sight - 4.25)

Poured a gorgeous clear amber body with a half finger of bubbly white head. A very nice looking amber/red ale, true for form. Scents of cedar, pine resin, citrus peel, tangerine flesh, cinnamon, tropical fruit with notes of pineapple and sweet caramel and bready malt, all balanced together quite nicely. Overall impression of aroma is of a very hoppy, yet also malty beer, intense in aroma, yet balanced. Very appealing. Flavor begins nicely bitter with notes of cedar and pine resin, mingling with flavors of mango and melon and light alcohol with a light malt backbone. Middle opens up flavors of grapefruit peel, mixing with pine resin and a high level of bitterness and a light malt sweetness in the background. Finish is bitter with notes of grapefruit peel, pine resin, juniper and a lightly sweet caramel malt backbone. Aftertaste is bitter with notes of grapefruit peel and bready malt with lesser amounts of pine resin. Overall impression of flavor is of an extremely hoppy, bright flavor profile bursting with tropical fruit, citrus and fresh pine flavors. Balancing this is a pleasant malt backbone that keeps it from being overwhelming. Quite nice, a good example of malt complementing hops. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate carbonation and a sticky, resinous feel, befitting a hoppy beer. Overall impression of mouthfeel is of a good, easily drinkable hoppy beer. Overall this is a fantastic hoppy red ale. It gets the hop intensity just right in aroma and flavor where both are intense, but not overwhelming as they are balanced quite well by the malt. An excellent hop-forward beer.

This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly just straight-up bubbly off-white head, which leaves a splendid array of mushed cobweb lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of somewhat dank pine forest floor, mixed 'n matched tropical citrus and fleshy fruit notes, dark sugary caramel malt, and further earthy, spicy, and leafy hops - all with a touch of alcohol warming pulling at the outer reaches of my nostrils. The taste is more of the same - big and piney, with a thankfully understated dankness, some mango and papaya south seas fruitiness, more generic grocery aisle orange and grapefruit, grainy caramel malt, brown sugar, and consistent floral, perfumed hop bitters.

The bubbles are fairly restrained in their plainly supportive measures, the body a decent middleweight, and actually quite smooth, the tropical nature of the hops not the sort to flippantly mess with an otherwise good thing. It finishes off-dry, the inherent caramel malt seeming bent on reasserting its provenance over the lingering and varied fruity hop esters.

A tasty example of this proto-style, hopped up with the lucre of a foreign land, and generally on spec otherwise. Easy to drink, an enjoyable Friday afternoon tipple, and yadda, yadda, yadda, Imma gonna go find some old school rock/metal to crank now - gee, I wonder why?

Tastes bitter for a red. Interesting... Big gulps serve up a caramel sweet taste while sips excentuate the hops. Again, pretty much a sugary ipa to me. YUM!

Moderate mouth feel. A little hot on the tongue. A rush of carbonation in the beginning. Almost, but not quite slick, near the end of the glass.

I really like this one! At seven percent, I shouldn't session this, but I want to! Love the caramel sweetness and piney smell. I've realized after a few, the smell is what makes this beer what it is. Taste doesn't quite follow suit, but it nearly does. I feel this is scored a touch low on BA. Try it!!!!